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LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Walden by Henry David Thoreau. With the help of his mother he secured ten acres of land seven or so miles away close to St Mellons, in Monmouthshire at the time, and with his eldest sister Enid established a smallholding. It began with poultry, but a naturalist's paradise was planned complete with an island in a flooded hollow. An attempt to visit Steepholm failed but he and an older neighbouring
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Born 1 October 1871, second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, and Charlotte, daughter of David Lewis, a farmer of Radyr Farm, Radyr, Cardiff. His family was deeply rooted in Glamorganshire; his father came from Wenvoe and his paternal grandfather from Garn-llwyd, Llancarfan. He was educated in Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College, and was apprenticed to corn
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker Born 1 January 1767 at Cwm-y-to, in the parish of Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. At a school conducted by David Price, at Llan-y-crwys, near Lampeter, he acquired liberal views of Christian truth and, in 1785, entered the Presbyterian Academy of 'Carmarthen,' situated at that time at Swansea, completing his course in 1789. In the same year, his hope of a tutorship being disappointed by the election
LYNE, HORACE SAMPSON (1860 - 1949), president of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1906-1947 1886-87, he was one of the founders of the International Rugby Board, as a representative of the game in Wales, and he served the Board without a break from 1887 to 1938. He served as the respected President of the Welsh Rugby Union longer than anyone else. He and Walter E. Rees between them steered the rugby affairs of Wales throughout the first half of the 20th century. He was prominent in the
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian January 1683. In 1686 (settlement dated 16 June) he married Mary, daughter of Sir Herbert Evans of Gnoll, Neath, Glamorganshire, who became her father's sole heiress on the death of her sisters. (She herself died before July 1696). On his marriage, Mackworth settled at Neath. His wife's grandfather, David Evans, as well as her father, had obtained leases which virtually gave them a monopoly in the
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine chairman of the Body during the height of the BMA's struggle with the Liberal government in 1911 over the introduction of the contentious National Health Insurance Bill which many in the medical profession regarded as a challenge to their status. Maclean, whose brother Donald was a prominent Liberal MP and a friend of David Lloyd George, was unfairly accused of being too lenient with the government in
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) Born in 1704 (christened 8 May), daughter of William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, and his wife Catherine Price of Tyn-ton, Llangeinor - sister of Rees Price, the father of the philosopher Richard Price; they were married 30 March 1703. William Thomas died in 1706 (buried 14 May). According to the story, he had placed his heiress, Ann, in the wardship of Anthony Maddocks, a
MANUEL, DAVID (1624? - 1726), poet Born 1624-5, according to some of the sources below. Little is known of his life. He was a native of the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. His wife, Margaret, died in 1699. There were three children: Mary, who became well known as a penillion -singer, Anne, and David. Some of the poet's work was published in Thomas Jones, Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol, 1696, David Jones, Blodau-Gerdd Cymry, 1759
MARKS, DAVID (1788 - 1871), musician
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician member of the Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the WEU, 1957-59. He was also a member of the National Union of Teachers and of the National Union of Blastfurnacemen. Hilary Marquand married on 20 August 1929 Rachel Eluned Rees BA (born in 1903 or 1904), a schoolteacher and the daughter of David James Rees of Ystalyfera, well-known as the owner of Llais Llafur. They enjoyed a notably happy family
MARSDEN, THOMAS (1802 - 1849), cleric and author Born in 1802 (or 1801), son of David Marsden, a lead-miner of the Lampeter neighbourhood. He was educated at S. David's College there, ordained in 1827, and licensed to Llan-y-crwys (1827-9), Tir-abad (1829-31), and again to Llan-y-crwys (1831-8). From 1838 till his resignation in 1840, he was vicar of Brymbo, and from 1843 till his death, rector of Llanfrothen. He died 24 October 1849, in his
teulu MATHEW Castell y Mynach, This family had held posts as stewards and seneschals during the 14th cent, for absent English lords. It was of the same stock as Lewis of Van, and derived according to 15th century pedigrees from Gwaethvoed of Ceredigion. Sir DAVID MATHEW (fl. 1428-84), the son of a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a dependent of the Nevilles and a leading Yorkist. From Sir David and his wife Wenllian Herbert

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